A 1904 instruction manual (fourth edition) from the Torchon Lace Company of St. Louis for learning bobbin lace on a cylinder lace loom. It gives general directions on equipment, abbreviations (half-throw, whole-throw, cross, twist) and winding bobbins. It then presents 25 graded lessons, from basic net and hole grounds to edgings and insertions such as Copenhagen, Smyrna, Medici, Maltese, Tondern and Nile lace, each with bobbin counts, thread sizes and pin-by-pin instructions. Photographs of finished samples illustrate each lesson. The end matter describes the Princess bobbin winder and lists prices for materials.

Volume Two of a three-volume instruction series on bobbin lace published by the Torchon Lace Company of St. Louis in 1904. It gives written bobbin-by-bobbin directions, using abbreviations such as ctc, wt, tw and ht with pin numbers, for numbered patterns (Nos. 26 to 32) in braid guipure, Russian lace, Cluny lace and Honiton lace. Each pattern is shown in a photograph of the finished lace sample. The volume opens with an introduction and closes with a price list of lace-making materials.

Volume Three of a 1905 illustrated series of bobbin lace lessons published by the Torchon Lace Company of St. Louis. It gives written instructions, with photographs of the finished lace, for Patterns 33 to 46: Honiton, Guipure, Italian thread lace, Mechlin, Saxony, several Valenciennes edgings and grounds, Binche, Regency Point and Duchess lace. Directions use abbreviations for crossing (ctc), twisting (tw) and half-stitch (ht), and refer to numbered pin positions, grounds, brides, gimp threads and picots. It opens with an essay on the art of lace making and ends with a price list of threads, pins, bobbins and pillow attachments.